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meek, for Rights hath the rose and knows it; A thom hath 

 the rose and shows it. Yes, to me the rose is in a class by 

 itself, nor am I alone in this, since, before Columbus plowe 

 the Main, old poet Dunbar dared set the rose apart, 



" Nor hald non udir flouer in sic denty (favour) 

 As the fresche Rois, of CoUour reid and quhyte (white). 



And even Spenser, great author of the Faerie-Queen could 

 find it in his heart to add only the lily to the rose in decking 

 the bridal bower, k ^^*^"Vi ^\l l^ l/y ' 



1/ " And let them also with them bring in hand 

 For my f ayre love, of lillyes and of roses. 

 Bound truelove wize, with a blew silke riband. 

 And let them make great store of bridal posies 

 And let them e'ek bring store of other fiowerSyJi^f^ 

 To deck the bridale bowers." o-O A j 



Now, note you well, — "And let them e*ek bring store of 

 lather flowers,** — ^just "other flowers." 



Mighty religious is she too on occasion, if one is to judge 

 by the traditions of the East where, on Mount Calasay, the 

 Hindu Olympus, we are told that there stands a table upon 

 which lies a silver rose, bearing among its petals the two 

 y holy servants of the Most High, whose duty it is to "Praise 

 God without ceasing." If again we turn, this time to 

 Mahommedan tradition, we find that when Mahomet took 

 his famous all-night flight through Heaven from Mecca 

 borne aloft on the back of the supernatural steed Al Borak 



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